What does it actually take to reach 95 healthy, active, and still working? Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper — the physician who coined the term “aerobics” and built one of the most respected fitness research databases in the world — says the answer isn’t just in your genes.
It’s in your habits.
In the latest issue of Healthy Aging® Magazine, Dr. Cooper reflects on nine and a half decades of life, including 70 years of studying preventive medicine through the Cooper Clinic, home to data from more than 150,000 patients and 300,000 stress tests. He shares the surprisingly modest daily routine that keeps him sharp, mobile, and dementia-free — from what he eats for breakfast to how many minutes a day he moves.
Along the way, he unpacks the research behind why even small improvements in fitness can add years to your life, why strength training becomes more important with every decade after 50, and why he believes “no drug can replicate the benefits of an active lifestyle.”
It’s a rare, personal look at aging well from someone who has spent a career studying exactly that — and is now living proof of it.
Read Dr. Cooper’s full story, only in Healthy Aging Magazine.
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